malvado

malvado (feminine malvada, masculine plural malvados, feminine plural malvadas)

1. past participle of malvar

From Spanish malvado, from Old Occitan malvat, from Late Latin malifātius (“unfortunate”).

• Hyphenation: mal‧va‧do

malvado (feminine malvada, masculine plural malvados, feminine plural malvadas, comparable, comparative mais malvado, superlative o mais malvado or malvadíssimo)

1. bad; evil; wicked

   Synonym: mau

malvado m (plural malvados, feminine malvada, feminine plural malvadas)

1. a malefactor, evildoer

   Synonym: celerado

Borrowed from Old Occitan malvat, from Late Latin malifātius (“unfortunate”).

• IPA^(key): /malˈbado/ [malˈβ̞a.ð̞o]

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• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: mal‧va‧do

malvado (feminine malvada, masculine plural malvados, feminine plural malvadas)

1. evil, wicked, mean, bad

   Synonym: perverso

   Antonym: bueno

   • 2020 September 23, “Venganza, enredos y trapos sucios en Saint-Germain-des-Près”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Cuando el hijo se lo explica todo al padre, este le pregunta: “¿Cómo has podido volverte tan malvado?”. “Malvado, quizá”, apostilla el narrador. “Pero feliz”.

     When the son explained everything to the father, the father asked him: "How have you become so wicked?". "Wicked, perhaps," comments the narrator. "But happy."

• → Portuguese: malvado

• Coromines, Joan (2011) Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN

• “malvado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024